FrothyMix

How old are you? It's relevant because real people don't act that way unless they're ashamed of their bodies. And yes, you see it a lot in BLs and it's just as stupid and unrealistic every time. If you don't find it of note then ignore my comment. Pretty simple.

Well, either that or Cinematic sloppiness.

oooh...you called me a "troll!" I'm devastated. lol

I see my comments touched some sore spots, eh? I'll readily admit I enjoy making my views known with plenty of spice. I don't care if you like it or not. I don't come to Internet comment boards to make friends, I come to state my opinion and read others'. Your opinion of me as a person or anything I do is of no interest or consequence to me.

"finding problems...?" Grow up. Maybe, just maybe I haven't found problems with "everything" and you just wrote that because you have no point to make so you just made something up? There ARE problems, so I'm expressing my opinion about them, which is as valuable as yours or anyone else's. Where did people like you get the idea that if you love a show it's other people's duty to support your opinion with theirs? Well, wherever you got, ditch it, because it's not the truth.

Well, that was too adorable for words. I consider myself a cynic and then I stumble across these sentimental/sweet/ridiculous Asian flicks that have me in tears. And laughs. Suzuki Reiyoho is a marvel. I haven't looked at his bio yet, but I've a feeling he isn't all that big and yet somehow made us believe he was. And Nagano Mei...I found her endearing and sweet and just as much someone you'd fall in love with as she was presented to be. I LOVE how in her eyes Takeo is handsome as hell and she's afraid one of her friends might try to steal him from her. haha

As played by Suzuki though, Takeo is at once a little scary and entirely as cuddlesome as a giant Teddy Bear should be. Sakaguchi Kentaro is perfect as Takeo's beloved best friend...I thought this was going to go entirely another direction at one point. :D It would be cool for a sequel to come back and somehow make that somehow come true.

Some of the faces made by Suzuki as Takeo had me laughing out loud. They made him up to be a little bit Beauty and the Beast, but his handsomeness was right there underneath.

What a great little find. For what it is...8.5/10

Oh boo hoo, "you're just rude..." whaaaa

Sure it's our business...we're in the audience. Everything seen and heard on that screen is our business.

I didn't say there was anything "wrong" with Nanon's body, you dunce. But he is indeed shaped like a string-bean, which I already said is pretty much my body type too. But if I accepted a role like this, I'd certainly be willing to take off my shirt and if I was uneasy about it I'd hit the gym a little beforehand. It's not as though he's been asked to flash his willie at the camera.

It is entertaining reading commenters such as yourself tie yourselves in knots to find excuses for Pran and Pat's choice to go home to separate homes and lives. If the parents were to use their leaving together as an excuse for even MORE hatred and resentment, that is THEIR problem and their responsibility and their choice, not the guys'. You don't accomodate bigotry and hatred by acting in fear and making the bigots' and haters' lives easier for them. You go off and live your own lives. and if someday the parents got their acts together and showed up at Pat and Pran's door to reconcile, that would be wonderful. But that is up to THEM.

I'll add what I told another commenter: there is no such thing as "true" happiness on Earth. There will always be something(s) painful and less than perfect that you cannot fix. So you let go and you live with it. Leaving the parents to wallow in their sad psychological prison cells would be the healthiest thing these guys could do for each other.

But you weren't born here, were you? The English is a little...off. This may be news to you, but "Black" people here call themselves "Black" all the freaking time. It is not a negative word. But I did notic that you did not capitalize it as is now proper English when referring to African Americans. What the hell do you mean owning slaves was not a "tradition?" It very much was that: A tradition that white southerners saw as central to their culture and economy.

Anyone who chooses their mommy over their lover in 2022 is a wimp and a Mommy's Boy. More news: There is no such thing as "true, perfect happiness" on Earth. The best we can hope for is MORE or LESS happy. So a real man with a real heart who values his partner would choose his partner and understand that it's the mom who is making the choice for him with her behavior and attitude, and he is not responsible for fixing her bullshit.

How about it being a creatively worded way to speak a truth. Does he look like he works out to you? I'm a bit of a string bean myself. Go ahead. Call me that. I'll survive.

Imagine "body shamer" being the most original comment you can come up with in 2022 when "body shaming" is all the rage, a huge fad. Newsflash: Some people are pasty string-beans and that's just a fact. Other people are big and fat and need to lose weight for their own health and that's a fact too. Imagine not being able to say true things because some people think doing so isn't in keeping with a trend. lol "body shamer..." hahaha...

You've been banging away at each other for hours...why would you get up and put on clothes? So what if it's Uncle's house? Pat was NOT wearing bottoms, when he walks out onto the porch you can see that it's a towel around his waist, as though he put it on getting out of bed. I'm just talking about the unrealistic element of it...you're not too shy to get a "10" from your lover in that bed, but you're too embarrassed to sleep naked? Nah...not buying it.

hmmm...can a show that strikes me as being THIS awful in the first two and one/fifth episodes really turn around and become a masterpiece in my eyes? You've intrigued me, but honestly, it's so bad to me that I struggle to find a reason to climb back on board that train wreck. I just keep seeing those stupid, cheesy, charcoal Incredible Hulk creatures and I can't take it seriously. And much of the writing was terrible. You had miles of phone and surveillance camera video of the first incident where that little guy was shredded and stomped into the ground, yet many of the characters were still laughing it off as being fake and not real and yada, yada...plenty of experts would have examined that footage and determined that it was authentic. And a hundred other little things.

FINALLY the sixth episode appeared out of somewhere on the Intertrons and I got to watch it. I really enjoyed this series. While it has a definite "Japanese-ness" about it, also has its own interesting vibes and rhythms. The image at the end of the finale was beautiful enough to make watching the whole thing worth while. In fact, from the mutual confession/confrontation in the schoolroom scene to the end was delightful.

OK, I get that being viewed and worshipped as an unattainable, perfect god of some sort would be annoying and not engender respect toward the servile person doing the worshiping, BUT it's not as though the "god" here did anything to dissuage that impression from forming and becoming permanent. I mean, he was always aloof and arrogant in his actions; seemed pretty untouchable to me. He broke thru that wall two or three times for an instant, but if he didn't receive an immediate, gushing response he rebuilt the wall in the next instant.

Anyway, I liked it, strangeness and all.

I'm just not feeling the character exposition/military vibe here early. Dropping about 45 minutes in. 5.5/10

That's a lot of clothes. Nice that Tong's clothes fit both guys even though they couldn't be built more differently and neither is built like Tong. :D

What is it about BLs that guys are always jumping out of bed after making love/having sex, and putting their clothes back on again? Especially after a night as passionate as we are meant to believe Pran and Pat shared? Pran ranked a "10" (hard to believe, I know) and yet there he was in the morning, completely dressed as he lay beside Pat in bed, not a hair out of place. lol

My logical guess is that Nanon doesn't choose to work out and looks like a pasty string bean. Putting him next to the mighty Ohm with no clothes on would make him look even more wimpy so they kept him dressed. Just a theory...

You write like you're made of stone, issuing proclamations honoring ancient prejudices and stupidities in the name of...ancient prejudices and stupidities. Don't give me the "Asian" BS either. Hateful traditions need to be resisted and eventually done away with and some Asian countries are liberalizing faster than others. Is it your position that every individual in Asia thinks like every other?

Lingering bitterness between those two families is already there and is NOT the responsibility of these two young men. Haters and bigots are free to continue being hateful bigots...it is not on these guys to change that or try to "heal" it, first of all, and it would be futilie to try if they did.

Why do we "have to believe" anything about these families? What these guys should be doing is believing in themselves, individually and together. It is NOT selfish to honor who you are and live without shame, to manifest your talents and abilities in an atmosphere that is supportive and affirming.

I live in the U.S. where white people once held Black people are slaves in the South. By your logic those slaves should have remained slaves out of respect for the traditions, values and context of the Confederacy.

Quit being an apologist for the homophobic douchebags in this series and the unimaginative writers who came up with them.

I do want to ask: Did Pran and Pat mean ANY of the sweet words that were exchanged at the beach? Did Pat really see it as their honeymoon and wish to "fight alongside" Pran or was that just horse shit he said in order to get laid? Did Pran finally give up the bootie because he knew it might be the one and only time they'd do it?

Staying apart because your parents hate each other is perhaps the only reason that could be even more twisted than staying apart because they hate fags. Either way, you're basing your life choices on psychologically twisted motives and feelings of your selfish parents. These would not be the first two young adults to tell their hateful parents to fuck off and set out on their own path because it's the right and honorable thing to do.

Shall we deny our love and stay apart for the sake of homophobia or for the sake of other peoples' resentments, grudges and immaturity? You seem to think that's a fair and wise choice either way. How about we do neither, tell them to grow up, and go get an apartment together near campus?

Ohm is the master of dropping one or two tears at just the right moment that breaks my heart wide open.
Where did they keep getting new clothes to wear at the beach?

This is a load of BS designed to justify the thousandth BL in which a young adult couple, after spending time together finding their love and declaring it and consummating it, then go right back home to all the people who are determined they will never be together, lie to them and kiss their asses. It's unoriginal, it's demeaning to gay relationships, it's disrespectful of themselves as human beings.

At their age three or four years are a long time, a time they could be living and growing together as the gay adults they were meant to be, side by side. Or they could discover they aren't a good long-term fit after all and, wishing each other well, head in different directions, having learned life lessons that are never learned while living a lie while wearing a fake costume and denying who you are. This twisted idea that the "mature" or "sensible" choice is always to cave in to the homophobes and step back into the self-hating closet where there is no light for anything to grow is nothing short of sick.

It is THE BL trope, and we see it over and over and over. "Love of Siam" is the all-time worst. Gay people can't be happy. Gay people should put their emotions on the shelf for years at a time, perhaps for a life time, in ways straight young folks are NEVER asked to do because, well, they're queers after all and mommy and daddy hate faggots so it's the grownup thing to do. What a disgusting and hateful message to convey to the young audience that watches these shows.

Sometimes you have to be brave and courageous and really fight alongside each other, as Pat said on the beach. And what's with these trips to the beach where the gay couple says all the wonderful things they've been longing to say as if they mean them, and then they go back home and do the exact opposite?

I'm hopeful, but not holding my breath, that the preview is a misdirection fake-out and this couple won't take the coward's way out. We shall see.